In the Wake of Golgotha

De: Daniel Grace

Narrado por: Daniel Grace

"A bold, ambitious, sprawling epic of literary fiction... Grace establishes a sense of timeless terror from the very first page." SAN FRANCISCO BOOK REVIEW

"A philosophical fantasy about the recurring traps in which we find ourselves..." KIRKUS REVIEWS

"A gripping, dramatic, layered tale of biblical forces..." INDEPENDENT BOOK REVIEW

There is no crime to fit this sentence; there is no sentence to fit this crime... Roman Prefect Pontius Pilate’s words are echoed by the zealot Judas Iscariot only hours before history takes a bloody turn on a cross atop Golgotha on Calvary Hill. Two thousand years later, these words are found scrawled in blood in New York next to three crucified men hanging on a basement wall.

Judas, now Jude Issachar, an enigmatic social worker and part-time professor, and Pontius, now Peter PheiXer, an unsettled defence attorney at a ravenous global law firm, have lived many lifetimes since their original encounter. However, Jude is aware of his past and is cursed by the fateful lure of the noose and the tree. Peter is damned by a recurring ignorance, a cruel cyclical awakening that creeps up on him as he is compelled to defend a sociopath who crucified three men.

Condemned for their role in humankind’s darkest betrayal, they must reckon with their pasts—and their futures—after a fateful, bloody collision of violence and addiction two millennia after their sentence began brings these lost souls together once more.

From author Daniel Grace and producer Justin Hill comes this blistering, compelling literary vision of Biblical Judea and contemporary New York—where mythology and reality brutally collide...

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